Chances

This grant is to enable performing artists working in the field of music from developing and transition countries to prepare new international programmes and productions with partners in Germany. The object of the programme is to promote international artistic collaboration and intensive cultural exchange on a partnership basis.

Artists' houses support professional artists of all disciplines by providing them with studio space and accommodation for limited periods of time, often combined with the award of a stipend or grant. They are international meeting places and centres of cultural and creative exchange. On the following pages, the various artists' houses in Germany are listed with an outline of their programmes and selection procedures.

Berlinale Talents is aimed at emerging film actors, audience designers (i.e. curators, cinema or festival makers), composers, cinematographers, directors, distributors, editors, film critics, producers, production designers, sales agents, screenwriters and sound designers with an existing portfolio of work.
Deadline for submissions:
1 September, 2021

International scholarship program for dance artists
In 2022, the NRW KULTURsekretariat will again offer dance artists a total of five residencies of several weeks for thematic, production-independent research with increased consideration of the aspects of sustainability and participation beyond physical presence. Three fellowships are intended for dance artists from abroad who intend a research stay in North Rhine-Westphalia in one of the 21 member cities of the Kultursekretariat.
Deadline for submission:
15 September, 2021

4-MONTH RESIDENCY FELLOWSHIPS IN THE FIELDS OF VISUAL ARTS, LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION

The Künstlerhaus Lauenburg (“Artists’ House”) offers talented young artists from all over the world the opportunity to complete new projects in an undisturbed working environment and to present them to an interested public. Artists of any age, nationality or place of residence may apply. The Künstlerhaus Lauenburg is characterized by its individual support and the networking of the scholarship holders with each other, as well as with the cultural scene of the metropolitan region of Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.
Deadline for submissions:
15 September, 2021

The Goethe-Institut’s grant programme Translations of German Books into Other Languages supports non-German publishers in publishing German-language literature. The programme supports the translation of current works of contemporary literature, literature for children and young people, comics and graphic novels as well as important academic titles and non-fiction works.
Deadline for submissions:
15 September, 2021

International coproductions epitomize a form of artistic collaboration involving partnership and dialogue. With a view to encouraging new collaborative working processes and innovative productions involving international cultural exchange, the Goethe-Institut set up a new coproduction fund in since the summer of 2016 to promote new working networks and approaches within a global context and to explore new forms of intercultural collaboration.
Deadline for submissions:
30 September, 2021

The Goethe-Institut's Visual Arts Project Fund supports artists, curators and institutions from different countries and regions in the realisation of projects planned jointly and based on an equal division of labour and creative input. The aim is to promote international networks in the visual arts, architecture, design and art education/cultural mediation through innovative artistic and curatorial work.
Deadline for submission:
15 October, 2021